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The Shuttered Shields – Tracing the Lost Uncles

This family film tells the story of Esther Alfandari and her family in Salonika, Greece, during the Holocaust. Esther Alfandari survived the Holocaust owing to her immigration to Erez Israel in 1933.

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 21

Language : English, Hebrew

Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie - Part 2

Second part of a four-hour documentary film about the fugitive Nazi criminal Klaus Barbi who served as head of the Gestapo in Lyons, France. Barbi, who was known as "The Butcher of Lyons", is responsible for the deaths of people in the French underground and thousands of Jews. The film describes his life from childhood in Germany until his trial in 1983, after he succeeded for 40 years to evade judgment. Winner of the Oscar Award in the category best documentary film in 1988.

Director : Marcel Ophüls

Production Year : 1988

Duration : 126

Language : English, French, Spanish

The Death is a Master from Germany: The Murder of the European Jews. Collaboration and Refusal in Europe

Documentary film, reviewing the extermination of European Jewry during the Holocaust in 15 countries (see detailed content in the "additional information" tab).

Director : Lea Rosh

Production Year : 1990

Duration : 161

Language : German

Klarsfeld: A Love Story

A documentary. Beate and Serge Klarsfeld have spent their lives tracking down Nazi war criminals and bringing them to justice. Now in their 80s, they continue their fight against a resurgent far-right movement in Europe. The film explores both their past work and their current efforts to combat fascism, featuring personal testimonies from fellow activists and family to presidents and Holocaust survivors. The film is also the story of a love affair between Beate and Serge; hunting partners, fellow activists, husband and wife, and parents, revealing both their courageous work and enduring love. The movie was...

Director : Mike Lerner, Martin Herring

Production Year : 2022

Duration : 90

Language : English, French, German

Die Pflaz im Nationalisozialismus

סרט תיעודי קצר. תלמידי תיכון מבקרים במחנה הריכוז גירס/Gurs

Director : Ruth Ratter

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 33

Language : German

The Meaning of Hitler

A documentary movie. this documentary, tries to answer the question what can history tell us about the present. Shot in nine countries, the film explores what Hitler means in the current waves of white supremacy, antisemitism, and the weaponization of history. Historians and writers such as Martin Amis, Deborah Lipstadt, and Saul Friedlander, along with famed Nazi hunters Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, suggest their insights of why understanding history is urgent . Sebastian Haffner’s 1978 German best-selling book The Meaning of Hitler.

Director : Petra Epperlein, Michael Tucker

Production Year : 2020

Duration : 88

Language : English, German

You Won't Get Me!

A documentary movie. A historical road movie of Manfred Weil. He tells about Oyssey during the time of shoah. Weil used tricks outmaneuver all the Nazi bureaucracy and their collaborators in order to flee concentration camps and to survive. After the war, Weil became a wonderful artist who most of the time focused with his paintings on beautiful subjects - above all women. Manfred Weil survived every kind of distress until he died of a natural death aged nearly 95. The film was shown at stranger than fiction 2016, Germany. .

Director : Werner Muller

Production Year : 2016

Duration : 119

Language : German

Kichka: Life is a Cartoon

סרט תיעודי. The film follows father and son Kichka during two intensive years in Israel, Belgium, France with many interlocutors. In one of the most intense moments of the film, father and son go to the place where Henri was arrested by the Gestapo in 1942. The 63-year-old Michel has never been there before, the 91-year-old Henri avoids this place, which for him is filled with the worst feelings ever, it manifests in him the second that was to change his life forever horrible. "Kichka" shows what power the cartoon can have, how father and son could only talk to each other through this art. However, the...

Director : Delfina Jalowik

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 75

Language : English, French, German, Hebrew

Berlin Paris

סרט תעודה על ביאטה קלרספלד. קלרספלד מכונה "הגברת עם סטירת הלחי" וגם "רודפת הנאצים", כינויים, המתארים את חייה המיוחדים במובן הרחב של המילה. בחו"ל זכתה גקלרספלד למעמד מכובד בזכות כשרונה לחשוף את הפושעים הנאצים. אולם בגרמניה, נשארה היא דמות מפוקפקת בגלל התקפתה על הקנצלר לשעבר קורט גיאורג קיזינגר (KIESINGER ) בשנת 1968. זמן רב נמנעו מלהעניק לה את "צלב הכבוד הפדרלי" של (מערב) גרמניה, הBUNDESVERDIENSTKREUZ. מפלגת השמאל (DIE LINKE) הציעו את קלרספלד כמועמדת לקנסלרות ב-2012, אך היא לא הפכה לקנצלרית. הסרט זה מדברת קלרספלד בעצמה על הקשר שלה עם שתי המדינות, גרמניה וצרפת. קלרספלד גרה בצרפת מאז 1960. בסרט יש התייחסות...

Director : Hanna Laura Klar

Production Year : 2010

Duration : 91

Language : English, German